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Great

Ships of all time

Above:

The nuclear-powered sub- marine USS Nautilus (SSN 571) in 1954. Photo Courtesy

U.S. Navy

Below:

Commissioned at Union

Iron Works, San Francisco,

California, on February 5, 1895, USS Olympia (Cruiser #6) departed to become the ? agship of the Asiatic Fleet.

Serving in the Spanish-

American War, she partici- pated in the Battle of Manila

Bay, on May 1, 1898, where

Commodore George Dewey stated his famous instruc- tion, “You may ? re when you are ready, Gridley”. Cour- tesy of the Library of Con- gress. National Museum of the

U.S. Navy, Naval History and

Heritage Command, National

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